Choice of Force

Special Operations for Canada

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Top-ranking military officers and historians consider the future role of Special Forces.

Twenty years from now, security issues may dictate that counter-terrorism is more important than operations to secure stability and rule of law. Security at the border, ethnic demography, and the perspective of the next generation will determine what strategic choices Canada will make about special military operations and the elite forces developed to carry out special missions.

In Choice of Force military and academic researchers survey what political and bureaucratic leaders expect of special operations and analyse contemporary operations, new challenges, and the factors that will shape Canadian special operations in the coming decades.

Lieutenant-Colonel David Last is an artillery officer, Canadian Forces, acting chair, Military Strategic Studies, and associate professor of political science, Royal Military College.Lieutenant-Colonel Bernd Horn is an active duty infantry officer, Canadian Forces and adjunct associate professor of history, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He is also the author of Hook Up!: The Canadian Airborne Compendium of Activities, Exercises and Operations, 1940-2000, Bastard Sons: Canada's Airborne Experience, 1942-1995 and many other books.